A clerk told deputies he was alone when a man wearing a ski mask showed him a gun and demanded the money in the register. He told deputies the man said, “I don’t want to have to kill you,” Hampton said.

The clerk locked himself in a backroom and called 911 after opening the register for the robber, who ran off with $100. The clerk had also been working when the store was robbed at gunpoint last week.

The clerk could only give deputies a vague description of the robber. Deputies searched the area, including with a sheriff’s helicopter, but were unable to find him.

Investigators are waiting for the store’s owner to return from vacation to review security footage of the incident.